Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.